Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a tortoise shell on Asia's back, Afghanistan lies athwart the spiny Hindu Kush mountains, sloping northward to the Oxus River and Russia, eastward to the Khyber Pass. Perhaps no land has been so trodden upon by history and yet kept its independence. Darius, Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Babur all invaded it. In the 19th century the British Empire, following a northwesterly course, approached the Hindu Kush and southward-marching Russians. In the end, Britain and the Czars, fearful of what might happen if their armies met, agreed to keep Afghanistan as a buffer state...
...Moving northward from Manhattan's Times Square through the garish canyon of Seventh Avenue, the traveler finds a varied evening cacophony. Bus engines whine. Subway trains roar through sidewalk gratings. On a corner a Salvation Army band pleads Onward! Christian Soldiers. Suddenly, through an open door, comes a shattering crash and a high-pitched wail, and a competing hymn bounces through the tortured air: When the Saints Go Marching...
...pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular arabesques of Theda Bara, flicks a shapely backside at her prey, slides out of a pair of lace panties, and departs northward to bump and grind in the old-fashioned tradition of burlesque. Pleased and bewildered, Ballplayer Joe sits happily helpless through it all, and in the end goes back to his wife, just as he intended from the beginning...
According to State Department sources, the Russians will not be allowed to visit Atlanta, as previously scheduled. Instead, the editors will be permitted to view the negro college, Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama, and will then travel northward to the University of Michigan. The State Department gave no reason for the action...
...wanderlusty Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, world tramper and traveloguer (Of Men and Mountains, Strange Lands and Friendly People), spent a long summer vacation clambering about on the peaks of northern Iran. Suspecting that Douglas, from his lofty perches, had stolen a peek or two northward, the Russians promptly and peevishly accused him of spying on them. Now, however, unpredictable Moscow is willing to let him look around some more. This summer, accompanied by Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, counsel to the Senate's Government Operations Committee, Douglas will enter Russia from Iran, reconnoiter by car through six Soviet...